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(The Numbers Refer to the Sections.)

Dates in Papal Bulls—style of same 29
Day begins—various hours in different countries 129
Day of the Hebrews 42
Day, working defined 128
Day on the ocean 130
Days of rest or Holy Days, Specification of 132
Definition of chronology 8
Deluge, Era of, as variously given 35
Destruction of records at Rome, etc. 16
Details of New Style 91
Dies aegyptiacae—meaning of this term in a calendar 50
Digging Stars—what these were to the aborigines 8
Dionysius the chronologer—history of his era, the A.D. 23
Discordances of chronologers—their effect 5
Disregard for non-Christian chronologies 2
Documents, Importance of, in researches 7
Documents against opinions—examples of the power of latter 7
Dog Days in U.S.A. differ from British 67
Dominical Letter or Sunday Letter 66
Driver's opinion upon chronology 37
Druids—Canon views on chronology 37
Druids, Epoch of 81
Duaba Yuga of the ancient Hindoos 10
Earth's age—Kelvin's limit 32
Earth's age—importance of finding same 33
Easter as New Year—history of this 104
Eclipses in chronological enquiry; their use 111
Egypt and Egyptian chronology, Notes upon 11
Elizabethan attempt at N.S. 78
Encyclicals by the Popes—how dated 29
England, styles in, The changes on the 91
English charters, first dated, Most recent opinions regarding 71
Epact—what it is, as used in the almanacs 50
Ephemerides defined—their bulk 138
Epoch of errors in philosophy and astronomy 6
Equinox in 1582—recurrence of period 27
Eras of the world, Differences on the 30
Errors commonly held in the Middle Ages 6
Exchequer year, Date of, explained 128
Execution of Charles I, date of, Variations on 49
Eusebius, Chronological tables written by 13
Fairs in Scotland, O.S. 85
Farrar's opinion of Biblical chronology 40
Fasti at Rome destroyed 16
Fellaheen, Meaning of Nile's rising to